Damien Henry

Damien Henry is Senior Vice President of Image Research at Jasper.ai. He co-founded Init ML, the company behind Clipdrop and cleanup.pictures, which was acquired by Stability.ai in 2023 and later became part of Jasper. Earlier, Damien spent six years leading innovation at the Google Arts & Culture Lab, where his team pioneered applications of AI/ML in creativity, including experiments in video generation and text analysis. In 2013, he co-created the prototype that became Google Cardboard, Google’s low-cost VR headset. Before Google, Damien co-founded AudioGaming and Novelab, building award-winning VR and interactive experiences, and served as the first CTO of Voxler, powering music games with singing voice analysis. Damien holds an engineering degree in signal analysis, is a co-author of 10 patents, and has won multiple world-class awards throughout his career.